Here is an explanation of the movie “The legends of Timm Thaler” released in the year 2017. The film opens with a group of youngsters preparing to take a photograph. “Tim thaler” one of the students is laughing uncontrollably causing the image to blur. The photographer tells him to stop laughing but when the principal comes his mustache motion are so amusing that the young boy can’t stop laughing with his chuckle he causes other students to laugh as well, hence ruining the entire picture.
Tim
who lost his mother when he was a child has only his father to lean on. His
father earns a living by working for a construction firm, Tim constantly has a bright smile on his face even though their
lives are not simple. Ida is the daughter of a bakery
owner as his best friend. They both going to like to see comedy movies together
on regular basis. Ida has had a limb impairment
since she was a child. However, Tim’s
smile and his companionship motivate her to be happy in her life although they
are not wealthy. Tim’s father strives
to meet all of Tim’s demands. They
two are inseparably linked they routinely attend horse racing events since they
both like watching the races and placing bets on the horses. After losing one
of the bets the two return home passing the grand hotel on their way. Tim’s father reveals that he used to be
the hotel’s boss and pledges to treat him to a great lunch one day. One day Tim’s father brings home a stepmother
and her fourteen-year-old son Irwin. After getting a full family,
his father hopes that Tim will live a
happy life from now on however things quickly turn bad for Tim. Irwin insults him and destroys his late mother’s presents.
Following their altercation, the stepmother defends her son and requests that Tim apologize to him.
The next morning Ida inquires about the bruise on Tim’s face but he dismisses it by
telling her he knocked into a cupboard. Later, they go to see a movie every
humorous part in the movie makes Tim
burst out laughing. Inside the theater when everyone else in the audience sees
him laugh, they start laughing as well.
The next day Tim and his father are seen together
watching another horse race which they win. After collecting their winning
amount his father bumps into a man wearing black sunglasses and scolds him to
watch his steps. Tim appears to be
enjoying himself in the company of his father oblivious to fact that this is his
last encounter with him. In the next scene, the funereal of his father who died
while working on the building site is portrayed. His stepmother displays little
emotions and does not even purchase a suitable tombstone for him.
Tim feels in tears after
being humiliated by his stepmother. He arrived at the racetrack to think about
his father and to his surprise discover a five-cent coin, just then the same
guy that his father has previously scolded arrived in front of him. He informs Tim that he is one of his father’s
friends. He offers Tim a pre-filled
slot and invites him to bet on Westwind his favorite horse. Westwind
unexpectedly wins the race and Tim
profits handsomely from his bet. Tim
sobs as he collects money and chooses to purchase a suitable tombstone for his
father. However, two fraudsters quickly round him and grab his money with a
simple magic trick. Tim only
discovers what has happened to his money once Baron luffette the same
guy who claimed to be his father’s friend, shows him the printouts from his
pocket instead of money. He lends him another five nickels and asks him to meet
at the racetrack tomorrow afternoon at 3 pm.
Next morning when Tim is about to leave his house his
stepmother requests him to bring some cakes. He runs to Ida’s bakery where he is reminded of his debt by the bakery owner. Tim responds jokingly that he would
repay her by robbing the senator.
He arrived at the
racecourse after some time and waits for Baron,
where he falls asleep on the bench because he is tired of waiting. When Tim is sleeping the same two scammers
seize his only coin when Baron shows
up Tim has no money left for the bet,
so he tries to buy his laughter by offering him a contract in which he will
assist him in winning every bet he places.
Tim is unaware of the
contract’s implications and signed it without hesitation. The grin on his face
fades away as soon as he signed. The deal indicates that Tim’s smile has been
sold to Baron. At the workplace, Baron enters with a chuckle surprising
his co-workers. The two scammers are actually his workers who transformed into
mice to keep an eye on Tim. Tim
settles the bakery debt and also takes Ida
to see the movie after winning the first bet.
Tim
does not laugh while watching the movie although the sequence is highly amusing
when Ida asks about the money. After
the movie he says he robbed the senator with a serious face. Seeing his serious
face Ida trusts his statement and
flees the scene later as Ida tells her mother about Tim’s story one of the
women at the bakery overhears it the nosy woman is seen telling all of her
neighbors about Tim’s story.
By night everyone in the
community is aware of the story thanks to word of mouth. During its
distribution, the story is even changed and modified to the extent that Senator
Stassen was viciously assaulted and robbed by Tim. When he gets home Irwin
discovers the money in his pocket and his stepmother accuses him of disgracing
her name but Ida’s Mom arrived at his
home and informs his stepmother that no senator has been robbed. Tim realizes that Ida is the one who had spread the rumor. He also confirms that he
won the money from the racetrack bet and that he also has the receipt.
Afterward, Tim wants to play and bet
some marbles with his buddies but none of them wants to because he always wins
and takes all of their money.
Later his stepmother
brings him and Irwin to the racetrack to see if his prediction is successful
despite winning the first two bets they become greedy and place the third bet
with their entire money. Tim chooses to
bet on Halali an underdog horse but Halali finishes fourth in the race. Tim’s
stepmother becomes enraged and begins berating him for his forecast.
Surprisingly, the announcer declares that the first of three horses have been
disqualified and that Halali is the true winner of the race. His stepmother
jumps with pleasure and goes to collect her winnings while Tim wanders outside the grand hotel.
Outside the hotel, Tim meets kreshmir an elderly hotel
employee. He is also the person Tim
met before betting on Halali for the third time. He inquires about Tim’s
betting abilities but Tim is not in
the mood to answer. Tim instead asks
whether he may work while staying at the hotel. Kreshmir declines his plea telling him to return to his stepmother
and makeup with her hearing this the confident Tim makes a bet with him predicting that he will be hired at the hotel.
Meanwhile, Yvonne the hotel manager rushes up to kreshmir and requests that he get an elevator boy Tim is quickly recommended for the
position by kreshmir and also gets to
reside at the hotel.
The next day Tim comes back home just to compose the
goodbye letter to his stepmother. On his way back to the hotel he runs across Ida, who considers but does not question
him about the cake she baked for him. Tim
also wants to tell Ida about his
racetrack wins and his new job as well as a question about the betrayal but the
two walk away without saying to one another. Ida arrives at her house wailing and sobbing, she is taken back
when she discovers Baron inside her
house with her mother unconscious. Baron attempts to persuade Ida by saying that Tim wants to play with her but he is hesitant due to her malformed
legs he then proposes Ida. Meanwhile,
Tim pays a visit to the tombstone
sculptor and begs him to bet with him since his father’s grave has a statue the
sculptor is likewise certain that there is a statue. Tim obtain everything he requires for his father and now desires to
return of his laughter. He returns to the racetrack in the hopes of tracing Baron. However, Tim is not permitted to visit the racetrack since he has made a
large profit on the bet. Tim arrives at the hotel saddened to discover that the
cleaning lady has discovered two mice and is preparing to kill them Tim takes over the job of finishing the
mice but instead of doing so he lets them go. Tim’s effort move the two and
they are transported back to Baron’s
office. They are also chastised for not having heard anything about Tim. Tim
sits alone desperate to regain his laughter and reads the contract where he
discovers that if he loses any bet he will regain his laughter after that he
encounters to kreshmir who informs
him about Yvonne his love interest determined to get his laughter back. Tim bets with kreshmir that Baron will
show up at their hotel at the next day.
Next morning Baron arrives at the grand hotel but
when Tim asks him to return his
laughter he refuses to do so. Baron
then takes off his spectacles and reveals his eyes to Tim which he finds familiar. Later Tim bets with kreshmir
that the cake will be supplied by Ida’s
bakery meanwhile a chef approaches Tim
and requests that he deliver cakes from one of the greatest bakeries he can
locate. Tim runs to the bakery and
comes face to face with Ida who has Baron’s
eyes. He then convinces Ida to let
him bet that Baron will have to
return her eyes to her. Ida
reluctantly accepts with a blink. She regains her eyes elsewhere once his eyes
are switched Baron who is making a
speech is bothered by his vision. He puts on his dark spectacles and drives
away from the hotel right away. When Tim
returns to the hotel kreshmir begins
to believe his abilities and offers him a wager to make Yvonne fall in love with him. In the meantime, Yvonne approaches them and kreshmir
changes his mind. Tim then reveals to
kreshmir that he had in fact signed a
contract with Baron to win every bet
he places in exchange for his laughter. Hearing his story kreshmir decides to assist Tim
in regaining his laughter and overthrowing Baron,
then he challenges Tim to a bet on
whether he would be the world’s richest man. Suddenly, the group of strangers
arrive at the hotel and whisked him away claiming that he is the only heir of
the world’s richest man who recently committed suicide. Tim is then escorted to the richest man’s mansion where he meets Baron the twin of the dead richest man
after Tim requests Baron returns his laughter to him but
just for a few minutes so he may press photograph the claims the laughter back
saying that the contract is still valid.
Baron
continues to explain to him about his wicked business claiming that he is
incharge of all bad deeds across the world we also learn that any time Tim wins the bet a piece of his soul is
lost. In the next scene after knowing about Tim’s
fortune his stepmother along with Irwin
approaches him at Baron’s mansion
asking for a loan by this time Tim
has gotten cold by heart and also lost some part of his soul. He gets angry with
his stepmother and throws them out of the mansion. Tim then wants to see his friend Ida but Baron tells him
that his new life would be harmful to Ida
and old kreshmir so Tim must never see them again as a
present Baron tries him to persuade
him to help him administer the city.
After reading news from
the newspaper about a charity racing cup to Tim’s name, Ida is concerned about
to him and visits the Baron’s mansion
where she meets Tim upon seeing her Tim advises Ida that she should stop looking for him since they no longer belong
at the same environment. Hearing this Ida becomes devastated. Later on, Baron and Tim watch a movie together we discover through the messengers that Tim’s father was murdered by Baron they feel sorry for Tim and wish to revolt against Baron.
After the posters of Tim Taller cup are pasted all over the city, Ida visits kreshmir at the grand hotel
noticing something odd about Tim’s
smile on the poster. Kreshmir tells
to Ida about Tim and Baron’s deal and
the two decides to assist him to recover his laughter.
The following Sunday Baron takes Tim to a racing cup, Ida
and kreshmir follow them, when kreshmir is helping Ida to climb on stage they are captured by the two scammers who
were saved by Tim. However, they
decide to help Tim when they get to
know that Ida is his friend lying to
Baron they bring the downstairs to Ida and kreshmir where Ida proposes to Tim
make a bet with her that he can’t laugh, Tim unexpectedly declines to bet
telling that he does not need laughter anymore. Meanwhile Baron Senses something
fishy is going around and starts for Tim.
Ida and kreshmir still can’t persuade Tim
Tibet just then Ida deliver a worm
joke and Tim finally gets free from the shackles of his lost soul he is also
able to recall Ida’s worm joke. He takes off his spectacles and finally
recognizes her. She then holds out his hand and asks him to bet that he will
not laugh. At the same time, Baron approaches them and extends his hands to Tim inviting him to accompany him home Tim chooses Ida’s bet implying that laughter and friendship triumph over wealth
and power.
Finally, Tim can laugh again and they emerge from the downstage area they discover Baron as a frail man outdoors before he departs he reverts his two messengers who betrayed him to mice. Tim assures them that he will care about them and the movie ends